Still in Search of 'Leaders' on this team..

Originally Posted by ethiostar from a sports forum:

Let me be clear first that i'm not of the opinion that we need to have one loud mouth player to act as a leader. Nor is this a 'the sky is falling' post. However, i am very concerned about what appears to me to be a lack of any type of leadership on this team, especially on the offensive side of the ball.

One can argue that Ellis is that guy on defense and we all have seen him on the sidelines trying to inspire the 'troops'. Other than Ellis, i don't see anybody else who has or is willing to step up and try and arouse some type of emotion. I thought maybe Tank will be the other person on D, but he has been largely absent.

And Yes, i understand that there are a lot of players that lead by example, and they get paid millions to be inspired to play, etc......... The reality is that no matter who who we are or how much money we get paid to do what we do we all need a little swift kick on the bum every once in a while.

We don't need someone to be barking every game. We just need someone who can gather and refocus the players when things get tough. I don't see Wade or Garrett doing it, MBIII is too quite of a person to do it, Witten is just a work horse and doesn't seem to talk much, TO might be afraid that his actions will be misinterpreted by the media, Romo, so far, seems to sit on the bench and pout after a turnover .........

There were a lot of things that went wrong during yesterday's game. I don't even want to go through those in detail. But the game was within reach the entire time, someone needs to step up and refuse to let the game slip away. We might still lose but at least we lose trying. What i saw yesterday was a team that wasn't hungry, motivated, and in the end angry enough to win the game.

Here is to hoping they learn from this one.